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0. 1).. WAITE. V EYEGLASS HOLDER.

(No Model.)

No. 434,964. Patgnted Aug. 26, 1890.

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CHARLES D. WVAITE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

EYEGLASS-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,964, dated August 26, 1890.

Application filed May 23,1890. Serial No. 352,903. (No model.)

I do hereby declare the following to be afull,

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to eyeglass-holders adapted to be attached to the wearer. The

- holder is so constructed that it really forms a safety device, from the fact that it is practically impossible for the eyeglass to become accidentally detached.

I am aware that eyeglass-holders have been made prior to my invention which have had certain novel features adapted to prevent the escape of the glasses. In the construction of my improved holder the two adjacent vertical sides of the hook portion are provided with downwardly-extendingsprings in contact with each other and having their lower ends reversely bent, thereby preventing the glassframe from being accidentally detached.

In the annexed sheet of drawings illustrato I 1ng my improved eyeglass-holder, Figure 1 representsa front elevation thereof. Fig. 2 is a side View. Fig. 3 is a side elevation viewed from the back side, the attaching-pin being omitted. Fig. 4 shows the holder provided with a modified form of spring, and Fig. 5 shows the holder having its back portion of the frame bent to produce a spring.

All the figures represent theholder enlarged.

In the several figures, a indicates my im proved eyeglass-holder complete, the same consisting of the bent-frame portion 1), provided at the back with the usual attachingpin 19 and catch a. The frame Z2 is made of any suitable material or metal. I usually form it from plated round wire flattened or cut it from a strip of plated sheet metal, although I sometimes employ gold, silver, and nickel plated stock for the purpose. The back portion of the frame is nearly or quite vertical, the lower portion being bent to form the eye it of thehook. From the eye the frame extends upwardly substantially parallel with the said back portion and is then bent inwardly at b to form a downwardly-extending spring side 12 terminating Within the eye It in a well-rounded outwardlycurved end.

To the front side of the back portion of the frame. I) is secured a piece .9 of metal bent to form a spring or yielding surface arranged to bear, against the adjacent surface of the spring side If. The spring 3 maybe produced from the frame itself by cutting through the stock, as shown at s, Fig. 3, wherein the upper end of the spring is represented as being integral with the'frame. In lieu of this the spring may be united to the frame, as indicated in Fig. 4.

By means of my improvement it will be seen that the passage m, communicating with the eye h of the hook, is kept closed automatically, although readily permitting the wearer to attach and detach the eyeglass at will. The reversely-bent ends of the spring sides prevents the eyeglass from passing into the space formed between each spring and its adjacent side of the frame or hook.

In attaching the eyeglass to the holder the former is passed downwardly along the passage m, a slight pressure being sufficient to force the eyeglass-frame past the spring sides into the eye h. The two yielding surfaces then immediately resume their normal or contact position, thereby automatically closing the opening or passage m.

The eyeglass maybe readily removed from the holder by a reversal of the operation. I would state that the end of the free arm or front side of the hook may be forced outwardly-z'. a, in the arrow direction, Fig. 2-

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form a hook or eye h and having" the said In testimony whereof Ihave affixed mysigsides provided with downwardly-extending nature in presence of two Witnesses. springs in contact With each other, the lower or free ends of the springs being reversely CHARLES D. WAITE. 5 bent, and an attaching-pin and catch, sub- Witnesses:

stantially as hereinbefore described, and for CHARLES HANNIGAN,

the purpose set forth. GEO. H. REMINGTON.

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